I am Xavier Ochoa. Publicly, I am defined by:

My Work 

I am Principal Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) at Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Also, I am director of the Research Program in Teaching and Learning Technologies at the Information Technology Center of ESPOL.

I am Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Tecnológica, a multidisciplinary journal published by ESPOL.

My Research

My current research interests are:

  • Informetrics:  Measuring the production and consumption of information
  • Learnometrics: Metrics for learning technologies
  • Measurment of the user-generated Web
  • Science 2.0
 A list of my publications can be found here.

My Academic Networks

Currently I am coordinating the Latin American Community on Learning Objects (LACLO) and organizing the LACLO Conference.

I am co-President of the Ariadne Foundation.  Also coordinating the Center for Development and Support at Guayaquil.  

I represent LACLO at the Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) consortium.  

I was part of the Hypermedia and and Databases Group of the Computer Science Department of the Catholic University of Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Erik Duval. 

My Project Portfolio

I have been involved developing, designing and lately coordinating several finished projects.  Among those:

  • SIDWeb (LMS system for ESPOL)
  • IEPSE (Innovation of Primary Education in Rural Areas through Information Technologies) 
  • Ecualocal (Intelligent Geographical Information System for Local Development in Ecuador)
  • VAC-CIIFEN (Virtual Application Center for the El-Niño International Research Center)
  • Comuna Area Networks (Wireless Networking  for Rural Area Connectivity)
  • SIGLIT (Geographical Information System for The Coast)

My Online Life

You can find more information about my current activities and personal life at: